Charities

Posted by firebunny
Posted by cornmaizeshark
No. Giving to charities is lazy and ineffective.

If you really care and you have enough, take a break and volunteer your service. You never know where your money will go too. If you donate your time and talents, you know it's going to a good cause.

It's irresponsible to donate to charities. And pretentious. AND a tax write off, so it's not even altruistic.
It's a tax write off because the government encourages people to donate to charities. Some people just give and give without thinking of the tax write-off. That alone is already something.

Volunteer services is another matter but you cannot disregard the value of material things too - for how would one charitable organization operate in the first place if it has nothing to give?
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It doesn't matter why it's a tax write off; simply that it is.

You can volunteer material things. You can build houses. You can even buy food and donate it to a local soup kitchen. You can choose the cause you want to back and in someway donate directly material goods or services.

But writing a check? Lazy. And that would be okay, but for the fact that it's also irresponsible. Fact is that most money donated to charities doesn't actually go to the cause you think it does. Do some research on that. Even if you think you can trust a specific charity, it really isn't possible to actually *know* where your money is going. So take the extra time to, idk, do more than write a check. Even if it means writing a check to a company to buy a thousand blankets which you then donate to orphans or something. That one step extra can mean the difference between helping children or lining the pockets of a corrupt "charitable" organization.

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